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I now have 247 Schleich animals. The first one I got was in 2007, but I have only been collecting since 2011. Do you think my collection is small, average or big for someone my age? I'm not really sure.

I now have 247 Schleich animals. The first one I got was in 2007, but I have only been collecting since 2011. Do you think my collection is small, average or big for someone my age? I'm not really sure.

I have 88 and I thought that that was heaps! My parents think that I have enough schleich and don't need more! I should bring them on here are show them how many you guys have. Where can you get the trees?

88 models is a fine collection, especially as they are mainly from Africa

About the trees, I just ran through the 2014 catalogue, and it seems that they don't make any plants these days, - not even the hedge

This means that you will have to look for them in places where you find retired items, like net-auctions, or perhaps you can be lucky to find them in little toy-shops, perhaps ?

Or you may look at a brand like CollectA. They made some very nice palm-trees this year.Looking at collecta may be "dangerous", though, because they have SO many wonderful African animal models, too That would change the focus of your collection, and ( as many of us have realized), can be quite hard on your bank account

Hello I hadn't even considered other brands. You are right I am always tempted to start new collections, but fortunately I am a very determined person, I was tempted to branch out towards the beautiful other wildlife such as asia/australia/europe/america and then there is the dogs/pets and the wonderful horses. Theres heaps! Fortunately I was determined to stick to my African collection and am now very excited as I only have a few more to go till I have all the 2010-2014 African ones. Sooo excited to be moving on, which type do you think I should collect next!!!I need-Okapi-Male rhino-male chimpanzee-Gorillas-Dromedaries-animal keeper-fruit bat-mandrillsmost of these retired ones are really hard to find at the momentthen of course I will continue to collect the new releases and the assesories.

Thank you Susanne I like to think that I do. I am lucky because as a child my cousin and I were given many Schleich. He has since given me the majority of his figures, which even from a young age we tried to keep scratch-less. I didn't start seriously collecting Schleich until the early summer of 2012 when I was feeling crafty and started making halters just for fun for my horses and stumbled upon people's collection videos on YouTube while trying to learn how to make them. I was shocked to see so many horses that I didn't have. So I did some research and realized how collectable Schleich was. I was hooked! I started out only collecting horses. But that quickly changed later in the summer when went on vacation to the West Coast (Oregon and California) and found my first variant; the lighter version of 14027, the African elephant female. I had the darker one from my childhood so I was surprised to see it in another color. Upon doing some resarch I found this forum! The rest is history , including my bank account.